Run Europa Universalis IV with Epic Games on GNU/Linux

18 Sep 2024

This is how I managed to run Europa Universalis IV via Epic Games on GNU/Linux (Debian 12).

First I installed Wine 9.0 from the Wine package repositories. Next I used winetricks to add dependencies for the Epic Launcher.

winetricks -q d3dcompiler_43 d3dcompiler_47 d3dx9 corefonts cjkfonts faudio

I then was able to install a working version of the Epic Games Launcher.

wine EpicInstaller-15.17.1.msi

Finally I installed Europa Universalis IV using Epic Launcher and run it.

Enjoy!

Update: Installing from the Wine repository breaks many Steam games, because Steam relies on some libraries which get changed by the new Wine version.

Update: It is better to use Lutris if you want Steam to work on the same machine.